Card stand or holder



Oct. 27, 1931. J E LAMBERT 1,829,360

CARD STAND OR HOLDER Filed Sept. 23, 1930 INVEN TOR.

doszP/e E. L/Mfflffif fom ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 27, 1931 a 1,829,360

UhliTED STATES PATENT GFFIE JOSEPHVE. LAMBERT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CARD STAND R HOLDER Application filed September 23, 1930. Serial No. 483,776.

This invention relates to devices for supstructed of a single stamping of thin sheet porting sheet materials and more particu material and is seen to comprise a base 11 of larly is directed to a stand or holder for re any suitable shape such as rectangular, round taining in upright position, display cards in or as here shown oval. Said base 11 may be show windows, cardboard figures of games or dished to stiffen the base structure and has 55 toys, and for other like purposes. cut in the mid-portion thereof wholly within Among the objects of the invention is the said base 11 pairs of oppositely disposed provision of supporting devices of the charslits 11a which provide integral struck-out acter described comprising few and simple clips or tongues 12. Each pair of said clips integral parts preferably made of a single or tongues 12 is bent to upstand from the con- 60 stamping of sheet material forming a comvexed Side 116 of the base 11 so that said clips pact neat appearing structure, which shall be tongues of each P are Spaced apart a very cheap to manufactur a d racti al and distance suiiicient to accommodate the thickflj i t t hi h degree i use ness of a display card or cardboard figure S.

' Other objects of this invention will in part O 1 m re pairs of clips or tongues 12 0 be obvious and in part hereinafter pointed y be pr v ded on the base 11, and where out, l l the sheet material from which the holder The invention accordingly onsists in the 1S stamped has practically I10 I'GSlllGIlCY, {1S f0! features of construction, combinations of ele- Ql When sing Commercial grades of ments and arrangement of parts SlltEt 1101'1, at least lVO pairs Of clips {1T6 T be exemplified in the onstructions hereinpreferably in the construction Of said holder after described and of which the scope of ap- 10 as shown 1 lg- 1- li ti ill b i di t d i th f ll i The stand or holder 10 is thus seen to com hi prise few and simple integral parts which can 1.; I th accompanying drawings, i hi h be very cheaply manufactured and provides 7 is shown'various possible illustrative embodi- JW QL neat appearlng and efiiclent dements f thi i ti vice for support ng a card or cardboard S in Fig. 1 is a perspective vieW of a supporting an D gh pp l n. device in the form of a stand or holder for a f e 1t 13 r l o provide a positive 1573 display card or cardboard figure of a game 5 engagement of the Card Cardconstructed to embody the invention. hoard figure S y the Pairs 0f c ps 1 ongues 2 is a eress-secfienal iew taken on 12 Of llllQ h0ldGI' lO, when the latter lS made li 2 2 i Fi 1 of the commercial grades of sheet iron or p Figg 37 4 and 5 are top plan Views f other material having little or slight resil- 73 fied constructions of the improved supportl, the form Of nd OI holder 110 shown ing device embodying the invention. n g- 3 y be uged- The latter y he Figs. 6 and? are cross-sectional views taken Constructed Stand Flescrlhed ve on li 6 6 d 7 7 i Fi 5 d and shown in Figs. 1 and 2 with the exception Figs. 8 and 9 are cross-sectional views t P s lips 1 tongues 112 are showing modified forms of novel clip con. DOSE-mined 1n nonahgned relation as for exstructions adapted to be incorporated in the h y Posltloning the Slit-S 11164 in the inqproved upporting devices hown in Figs bElSQ SO lll'lblltpOTtlODS 1 3, 4 d 5, of the base bet-ween the pairs of clips 112 ex- Referring in detail to the drawings, 10 tend in angular relation. .Thus when a flat :5 denotes a sheet supporting device in the form card or pasteboard fi 'ure S, which possesses of a stand or holder for retaining in upright considerable resiliency effective to retain the position a display card or cardboard figure latter flat against distortion, is fitted into S (shown in dot and dash lines) constructed the non-aligning pairs of clips 12. there is a to embody the invention. tendency of the card 3 to resume its normal Said stander holder 10 is preferably confiat position. This tendency provides a flip therebetween cards or 'cardboard 'figures of board figure.

constructed, 1t may be made of a lighter gage tional engagement of the card S in the pairs of spaced clips 112 of the holder 110 (see Fig.3). I

A similar frictional co-action between a fiat card S and the pairs of curved clips 212 of the stand or holder 210 may be provided as shown in Fig. 4. Here one or more pairs of clips 212 which have a slight curvature will flex or distort the card or cardboardfigure S and provide a frictional engagement due to the tendency of the card S'to'assume itsnor mal flat condition. 7 h v It is often desirable to use a stand or holder for relatively thin sheet material S1 in which case the pairs of clips must be spaced very close together and therebyjweakening the structure because theunbent portions of the base between the clips are: very narrow. It

is therefore desirable that such weakened 7 portions be made stronger. To this end,1the

construction shown in Figs. 5, 6 and? may- 312 and thereby strengthens this-portion-3110 of the base'structure.

Itshould be noted thatthe depressed portions 3110 may be extended to the entire'length of the base to serve as a reinforcement-to the stand 310 and also to provide a recess for holding the lower part of-the card or card-v When said stand 310 is so of sheet material than otherwise.

. Where it is desired to provide stands or holders with spring engagement 'clipssuch may be constructed as 'shown'in Figs. 8 and 9. The holder 410, shown in Fig. 8, has clips 412 formed with upper ends 412a outwardly flared sothat a card or cardboafd'figure' may be readily inserted between the pair of clips. Themid-portions 412?) of the clips maybe curved in order to increase theresiliency of the structure. I The unbent portion 4110 of the base 411 between the clips 412 also can be made wide and strong.

various thicknesses since they possess a fair degree of resillency. or spring for accommodating such variations although said holders be made of commercialgrades of sheet metal having low degrees of resiliency.

It will thus be seen devices whereby the several objects of this invention are achieved and which are well adaptedto meet the conditions of practical 'As various possible embodiments might be made of the above invention, and as various changes might be made in the embodiments above. set. forth, it is to be understood that all matter herein set forth or shown in the accompanying drawing is to. be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. u 7 Q 5 ;'Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent: w v I 1. .A one-piecestamping of sheet material comprising a base having clip portions struck-out from saidbase, said portions being bent in spaced pairs to upstand from said base forming retaining means for a card, said pairs-being positioned in non-aligned relation.

2. A one-pica stamping of sheetniaterial comprising a base having tongues struck out that there are provided therefrom, a pa'irof said tongues beingbent 1 to upstand in close spaced relation from said baseforming retainingmeans for a card, the portion-otthe base extending between the tongues being depressed as and for the-puripose described and specified;

3. A onepiecestamping ofslieet material comprising a dished base having tongues struck-out therefrom, a pair of said tongues being bent to upstand in close'spaced relation from the conve xed side of said base form ing retaining means for ;a,card,-the portion of the base extending between the said tongues being depressed to extend the length otsaid base as and for the purpose described and specified;

In testimony whereof ;I afiix my signature.

' JOSEPH E.

In the holder 510 shown in Fig. 9, the upper ends 512a oi." the clips are bent to eX- tend inwardly so that a'card or'cardboard figure inserted'between the clips 512 will'be I gripped by'the latter. In this construction 1 the unbent portion 5110 of the base 511'between the clips512 is relatively wide which strengthens weakest portion of the base structure. t

v Both forms ofholders 410 and 510 shown in Figs. '8 and '9, are adapted'forinserting 

